Joel 216: The Mystery Of The Will Of... The Father - Part 1. Calvinists don’t want to know?

Our pastor’s dog, Brinkley, has died suddenly of cancer. And that leads him into further study of The Immortality of Animals. The understanding that God is love precludes any thought of animals ceasing to exist. When you look at 2 Timothy 1:10 the animals are included in that. Isaiah 25:8 says that all tears will be wiped away. A loving God will not wipe out our animals because then many of our tears would persist. Pastor takes a question from our little home broadcasting audience about Calvinists and their belief that animals have a spirit and not a soul. And there is no annihilation of the soul in Scripture. Animals have Conscienciousness, same as we do, and they are self-aware. There is much that our pastor has to say about this. Romans talks about creatures being resurrected. Genesis 9 is an everlasting covenant for all creatures. Everything that has a natural body will be resurrected.

Part of the Mystery of the Will of The Father is that animals will be resurrected. Christ is the One who gives existence to all living souls, animals included. So, why do nearly all Christians that hold their dogs and cry as they die tell their veterinarians that they’ll never see them again? Our pastor gives an example from a Biblically sound veterinarian he met recently.

Pastor Chronister also gets into where people and animals go when they die throughout history.

And the hubris of the Calvinists is exposed, and pastor says that the animals will be resurrected before them, and before anyone who believes that animals don’t have souls... because God likes to make a point, and He has a sense of humor.

There’s much more, so be prepared to take notes and press play.

Notice: This is a very in-depth and fascinating study of Joel, Daniel, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Job, and Genesis, by our pastor Stephen A. Chronister. You are watching Lecture Number 216 in this series. Current and past lectures can be found at www.cliffside.org in the Media page, and Podcasts are available on iTunes, https://cliffside.podbean.com/, iHeart.com, and

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Scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:10, Isaiah 25:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12, Genesis 9, Ecclesiastes 3